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In 1894, Nicholas II became ruler of a Russian empire that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, inhabited by 126 million people, from 194 ethnic groups. It was a country in which workers and peasants lived in poverty and hardship – while Russia’s elite – its imperial family and aristocracy – lived lives of …

Dia daoibh a chairde go léir, my name is James Nagle, welcome to The Irish Nation Lives. For almost two weeks in April of 1919 Limerick City was governed by a workers council which had its own police force and issued its own currency. To understand what led to the birth of the Limerick Soviet …

This video series would not have been possible without dedicated research by an individual That will be known only as J.K., you know who you are. Thank you. With the quarantine in full effect here I thought I’d give you all a brain dump on the Altyn helmet and its extended family. In this multi-series …

By the 17th of August 1942, Hoth’s 4th Panzer Army hadn’t moved for several days. “Here, they had to stop due to a fuel shortage.” A fuel shortage so severe that they decided to make the problem worse by giving Hoth two additional divisions to supply – the 297th Infantry and the 24th Panzer Divisions. …

In the early hours of August 13, 1961, East German construction workers flanked by soldiers and police began tearing up streets and erecting barriers throughout the city of Berlin and its surroundings. This night marked the beginning of one of history’s most infamous dividing lines, the Berlin Wall. Construction on the wall continued for the …

Narrator: CHERNOBYL — THE MOST RADIOACTIVE SITE IN THE WORLD, A TOXIC WASTELAND. NOW, FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, TWO SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN GRANTED EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO INVESTIGATE THE ENTIRE ZONE. RISKING POTENTIALLY LETHAL RADIATION, THEIR MISSION IS TO FIND OUT WHAT 30 YEARS OF NUCLEAR FALLOUT HAS DONE TO LIFE HERE. -GETAC BK! -COME …

The date is the 17th of July 1918, and as the clock strikes two am, Tsar Nicholas II and his family are woken from their beds. The Romanov family has held power for years across the Russian empire, but tonight that empire will fall and a new Soviet state will arise in its place. First …

(adventurous music) (typewriter typing) – [Male Narrator] There are two kinds of history: official history, the kind which is taught in schools. Then there’s secret history, a scandalous kind of history which explains how things really happened. This is the story of Australia’s secret history. ASIO is Australia’s leading intelligence agency set up to identify …

The film was shot on a color captured German film, “Agfa”. Installation and dubbing was carried out in Berlin, as there was the necessary equipment. According to cameraman Mikhail Poselsky, after the film was shot, it turned out that most of the tape has a color defect. For this reason, the entire film was transferred …